Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-27
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

III OSkalOOSa, Iowa
"A parrot in Indianapolis recently
died of diphtherla.
Mrs. Henry Wood, the English
novelist, left SlS0,000.
Russia imports annually raw cotton
to the value of Si3, COO, 900.
Penny biographies of Queen Vic
tOrIa are on sale in London.
"A Sturgeon Bay wis. man caught
5000 pounds OF fish in one day.
"A Brooklyn factory is said to make
204, ,OO0, 600 iishhooks annually.
"A ive-legged pig attracts atten-
tion on farm near Jacksonville. Fla.
California reports production of
nearly $4,000, 900 worth of candy last
year.
The Naval Academy at Annapolis
was formally opened on October 10,
1916.
Nearly $4,000 farms have been
opened up in Kansas during the past
year.
Corn in Florida is reported to he
twelve feet high, with three ears to
the stalk.
+ The salmon run in the Columbia
river IS reported almost equal to that
| of last year.
--Eighty-four of YJl University
students have taken the course on So
ciology this year.
"A Greenwood, South Carolina,
| farmer claims to have struck a gold
mine on his plantation.
The first telescope used in this
heuntry for astronomical purposes was
/ bet up at Yale college i'll 1890.
The Lower Danube, which has
coretofore been without that fish, has
seen stocked with 800, 900 eels.
John Barden has been a regular
subscriber Of the Rutland (Vermontl
! Herald, that paper says, for 80 years.
The citiZans OF Oswego, Kansas,
raised $1,000 in half day for the pur-
pose of sinking 4 shaft in search of gas
and coal.
Jack Rabbits that are sent from
Oregon and Idaho to Chicago are said
to return III tie form OF canned
| chicken"
Steam pipes, by a local ordinance,
must be kept 1T a distance OF three
inches from any woodwork il San
Francisco.
Virginia, it is stated, is steadily
reducing her tobacco area, but IS as
steadily improving the quality of the
production.
-Lauadrymen are the most humble
and forgiving beings on earth. The
more cuffs you give them the more they
Will do for you.
, No rains have fallen In Crawford
county, Kansas, for sixteen months, 1t
Z IS stated, and water sells there for 40
cents a barrel.
The american Manufacturer thinks
| iron blocks may yet be used with ad-
vantage for street paving instead OF
) stone or wood.
II. Rider 1faygard Is deserTiiaeJi Is ssfs
: 4 slender man with q fine head and a
1 strong, well-balauced face. He IS not
5 much over thirty.
"A Chicago canning company la!
: concluded contract for !, SO, 900 kilo:
; of canned meat for the French army
: and 100000 for the navy.
1t is actually believed in Berlin
f that were it not for the strict prohibi
f tICn of his doctors the emperor wCulC
? dance at every ball he attends.
One fifth of the entire population
of England and Wales are stated to be
l in Sunday schools, there being COG, ,OOC
| teachers and >, 200, 900 scholars.
The Prefect of the Seine allows
500 eXcursiOniSts a day To visit the
sewers and catacomb5 in aid of the
sufferers from the.dOods in the South of
France.
"A man in the duchy of Anhalt
has wagered 1000 marks that within
two years he can copy the whole OF
the Bible, punctuation and all, with
out a single mistake.
1t cost Henry Irving (he IS quoted
I | 20 In,
that he could not establish the reserve
/, seat system in the parquet Of bis Ly-
ceum (LOudon) Theatre.
"A system OF analysis conducted by
a professor or the Chicago Medical
College has been bettering the milk
supply of that city, and getting some Ct
the dealers into trouble
The inhabitants OF Kansas City,
Missouri, are enjoying free rides on
an electric railway, just started there
by company which purposes run
) ming the entire road by electricity.
The suicide Of an army officer who
. had gone about San Francisco under a
half dozen different names, and
: whose identity they have been unable
to discover, has been puZZling the po-
lice OF that city.
"A new fruit pest" that has thus
= far delied all attempts at Its extermIn-
alton has appeared in Dayisville,
California, and vicinity, and, according
to accounts, is working gr eat damage
: % thousands of grapevInes.
"A 0o-pOunu cannon Dau was IuunuI
l the other day buried in the earth In
Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont
1t is thought to be of English manu-
facture, and IS probably a relic of the
Revolution or of 1912.
, -Rockland, Maine, has had twenty
l five fires within less than year, and
all, or nearly all, are believed to have
; been of incendiary origin. The Mayor
now offers $500 reward for the detec-
, , ton of an incendIary.
Daniel L. Alger, who died some
: days ago in BronXville, New York, IS
thought by his physician to have been
fatally poisoned by the dye from black
and gold-striped stockings that he pur-
. chased in Paris.
The Corean Government, it is re-
, ported, has concluded a contract for
A three iron steamers. 1t is also stated
n that one of the Commissioners OF
Customs has started out to find a IA
, | vorable place on the northwest coast
1 for haTbor.
"A Canadian lynx or loup cerVieT
Il was captured in a common steel trap
u in Hampden, Maine, last week. The
animal was about 40 pounds in weight,
? and so savage that the trap had to be
II sprung on each of its legs before ii
could be handled.
An Augusta (Maine) paper says
# that q well-known liquor seller Is sue
cessfully retailing imported liquors in
4 the original unbroken packages in that
city, under United States law, and
9 the State authorities are powerless.
The first motion towards good is Il
/ discover our defects.
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